"Mom! Mom! I think it's moving!" The small boy with freckles and green tinted hair yelled as he had two fingers on his temple and his other hand outstretched as if to grab something.
"Hmm... Izuku. Maybe your quirk isn't telekinesis. Maybe it's a combination of our quirks. Or a variance maybe." She said with a smile while holding up a camcorder, recording the small boy in an allmight onesie trying to find out his quirk on a tissue box.
"Mom! Could we practice on the stove?"
"Uwah!? N-No, Izuku. It isn't safe to play with fire. Remember?" Inko replied.
"Aww" He hummed with a pout. "How am I gonna find my quirk?" Izuku crawled up on the couch where his mother was sitting to inch his way up and give her a hug.
"Don't worry Izuku. Your quirk will pop up eventually. You heard what the doctor said yesterday, just wait for a few weeks and we'll find out" Inko gave him a quick peck on the forehead and ruffled his hair while she turned the camcorder off and took to the kitchen.
"Are you okay with onigiri tonight sweetie?" She asked.
"Yes mom!" He cheerily replied.
Break
"Hey shouta! How's the wife and kid been doing!?" A blonde with a black leather jacket and a thick choker asked.
"I never married and he's fine. Did you just come here to bug me or do you have actual business with me yamada?" The tired man replied.
"Aww. After having a kid I thought you'd have softened up." He replied while patting the back of his friend.
"If you're not here for work, then just move along" he replied, brushing yamada's arm off.
"Speaking of which" he turned to his phone beeping in alarm.
"Night watch?" Yamada asked.
"Yeah. I'll be leaving now, lock the room up after you're done." He replied, arranging and tucking away the paperwork he was working on in the file cabinet besides him.
"Stay safe" the blonde replied.
"We're pro heroes. We're never safe, yamada you should know that by now." Aizawa remarked while putting on his gold grilled goggles.
"I know I know. But just stay safe yeah?" The blonde replied while pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Whatever" Aizawa replied while shutting the door behind him.
Break
Aizawa kept his promise of meeting up with Inko every night, even if they just waved at each other. She smiled every time she saw him with his gold goggles and bandaged scarf around his neck. He even gave a smirk once in a while. He even sometimes stopped by the window of their apartment and gave a wave.
All while Izuku was still struggling to use his quirk. Incidentally, sometimes Inko herself was starting to have troubles with her quirk. Sometimes it just wouldn't activate, and sometimes it would work just fine.
It was strange to say the least. But most of the time she would've just brushed it off as exhaustion.
School was another thing for the young freckled boy. In his elementary school, he would always nab a good spot around the top 4 places. But some of his friends started turning on him. News caught on that he hasn't manifested his quirk yet, and some of the delinquents started up rumors that he was quirkless. But then again, katsuki, his best friend, would bump in and kick anyone's ass who would try and hurt the freckled boy.
"If anyone touches him I'll fucking kill you all!" He yelled while small sparks flew from his palms. All the while Izuku was hiding behind him.
"Th-That's e-enough Kacchan" Izuku said weakly behind the ash-blonde.
"Deku, they gave you a scratch and told you you're quirkless. You think I'll let shit like that pass me!?" He yelled back.
"Jesus, katsuki's defending him again" a boy with devil wings snickered to his delinquent friends.
"Huh!? The fuck you say you piece of shit!?" Katsuki boomed.
Overall, Izuku's life was mundane, boring, and lived most of his 1st and 2nd grades quirkless. At least he had katsuki.
Speaking of which, he became more protective of the green-haired boy. The moment the rumors spread that he was quirkless, he got so pissed that he managed to blow away a tree with his quirk.
Of course suspension was imminent for destroying school property. But Izuku went the extra mile and accompanied him when he stayed at home. He even got half of the yelling from Mitsuki when she was called in from work.
They promised, Izuku and Katsuki promised to each other that they'd get into a hero school, preferably U.A and become pro heroes.
"Just manifest your fucking quirk already so we can kick ass together, Jesus" katsuki growled lowly.
"I'm trying" Izuku groaned as he stuck out his hands towards a tree and tried shooting out fire.
"Looks like your quirk's not fire bending" the ash-blonde huffed.
"Aww... would've been cool though, kinda like endeavor." Izuku replied.
Break
"Tonight? You sure?" The voice asked
"He's been here. He smiles here. He's happy here. And we're gonna take that away." Another voice said coldly.
"Did we really have to wait 3 years before making our move?"
"We needed to confirm jackass. And the patient tiger beats the impatient fawn."
"So...Around what time?"
"His nightly watch starts around 8, and he rendezvous here around 9. So 8 would be the wisest."
"Alright, so it's just us two?"
"You stay watch, while I deal with the dirty work"
"Hmmph, fine" the voice grumbled.
Break
"So Inko...How's he been?" Mitsuki asked Her while she sipped on some of her tea.
"Oh. He's been fine, he's still trying to manifest his quirk though." She replied.
"I'm not talking about Izuku. I'm talking about him..." She sighed. "Pro hero that can't even show up to meet his kid. What kind of dad is that?" Pinching the bridge of her nose she sighed.
"He just wants us safe" Inko stated, sipping some of her tea as well.
"And that bum you married is getting his head busted in who knows where" Mitsuki growled.
"He's not a bum. And you know we needed cover."
"Sounds kinda shady though. A day after the wedding and he's off to Sweden" Mitsuki replied.
"It's better than keeping up a charade everyday" Inko sighed.
"Well, one day Izuku's gonna find out. What will you do then?"
"I don't know. I can see it. Every day. Little by little, he's losing hope. Giving up on manifesting his quirk. It saddens me that I can't do anything about it." Inko said solemnly while she dropped her head on her arms.
"Hey. It's okay, I'm sure his quirk will come around. And till then, Katsuki's still got his back." Speaking of which, she can hear the two boys running out and about upstairs.
"It's late. Maybe we can have this conversation tomorrow?" Mitsuki asked.
"I-I'd like that."
The two blondes left the two green heads as they went back to their home.
"Bye Kacchan!" Izuku yelled.
"Deku" he lowly growled while giving an off an over the shoulder middle finger.
"Don't do that brat!" Mitsuki swatted her son's head as they walked through the street.
Break
With a sigh, Aizawa jumped off an electrical pole and ran his way towards Inko's apartment.
"Wait" he squinted, slipping on his goggles after dripping some eye drops Aizawa looked at the unlit apartment with a slightly ajar door.
"Inko?" His heart was racing, he couldn't have been this sloppy.
"Hey Inko" he said as he opened the door. The room stank, the lights were out, and there was a mess of furniture lying around. He could hear faint sobs as he approached the light switch.
"Inko!?" Once the lights were on, he saw her body laid down on the floor as the splatter of blood decorated the wall and mahogany planked floor.
"No sudden moves or the brat goes with his mom." The gun quirked villain said as his grip around Izuku's neck tightened, but ensuring him to still breathe. Aizawa stiffened as he looked at the lifeless body that was Inko with holes in her. "Fine, leave the child out of this. He's done nothing wrong."
"But you have! Now take off the goggles." The gunman said as he placed his goggles around his neck as the villains smirked. "There, now isn't this just-NUKE HIS EYES!" The villain yelled as the other one threw an unpinned can in front of Aizawa and rolled to his feet.
A loud crack and a bright flash engulfed the room.
'Crap that can't be-' His thoughts stopped as he felt pain and irritation in his eyes as he fell on his knees. "Ahhh! Damn my eyes!"
"Just something we got for you, just for this moment." The villain said as he tossed Izuku to his partner and pointed his fingertips to his head. "This is payback Eraserhead. Don't worry, you'll see them soon. In hell!" The villain shouted as he flexed his fingers a bit as a trigger to his gun quirk.
"Huh!? Come on! Come on! What did you do to my quirk Erase-GAH!" The villain said as he felt a kick to his jaw and his head slammed to the side of the brick wall. "That really hurt damn it. And I did nothing to your quirk, maybe you just don't know how it works." Aizawa said as he slowly got up and opened his eyes. Red and irritated as his hair waved around with his scarf as his eyes glistened menecenly in the dark.
"Now, are you brave enough to make the next move?" The other villain trembled as he tried to make a run for it but was caught in his stare and his capture gear and slammed to the wall with the other villain out cold. "Figures."
Break
"Inko..." with a lone tear, Aizawa looked down at the lifeless body of his lover. It was done, he couldn't do anything, he would just waste energy trying to cry his eyes out.
It hurt.
It hurt in all meanings of the word.
"Damnit, I fucked up" he said softly with a punch to the dry wall. Making a large crack as the pavement broke due to the force of his punch. Making his knuckles softly bless as more tears streamed his face.
"I should've come earlier"
"I shouldn't have had visited so often"
"I shouldn't be sulking" he finally said as he wiped away the tears that stained his face and looked towards the two villains, laying unconscious on the floor.
"Damned fuckheads" Aizawa grumbled while he gave a weak kick towards the head of the gun quirked criminal.
He fished his phone out of his pocket, wiping his sleeve across his eyes one last time to erase any evidence of him crying.
"Hey yamada..."
"Oh hey! Shouta! How's it hanging!" He replied cheerily through the phone.
"Can you make it here? I'll send you the coordinates. Something's come up." Aizawa said dryly.
"Of course! Of course! What happened though!?" He asked
"It's Inko...she's dead"
"Oh my god" Yamada remarked taking a sharp 180 from his usual cheery attitude.
"Just...please. I need help with this" The raven haired man said while eyeing the unconscious bodies incase someone woke up.
"Did anything happen to Izuku!?" Yamada asked.
"Izuku? Wait. IZUKU!" He asked with realization as he dropped his phone.
"IZUKU!?" He asked once he found a small 8 year old boy, hugging his knees and crying to himself.
"Ahh! G-Get away from me!" The boy yelled back.
"Everything's okay. I'm a hero, the villains are unconscious and on the floor-" Aizawa stated as he inched his way towards the boy.
"Wh-What about mom!?" He asked screaming.
"I-I'm sorry" Was all Aizawa replied.